I’m not one to comment much on videos but I couldn’t miss this opportunity to thank you for all your KZfaq videos. This is one of the most instructive and inspiring photography channels out there, you will be missed!

Come on Craig - you cant leave us ! One of the very best photography channels here.

Noooo. Don't go. I've been following your videos for ages, and I've loved every one of them.

noooo you cannot leave, this set of videos combined with the snapshots have been great. The different style and approach has been so refreshing.

Don’t you dare say goodbye!

I started using a View Catcher about a year ago. I have mine marked off for all the formats I shoot on film which include 4x5/8x10, 5x7 and 4x10. It's a huge help in composition and is usually the first step I take when encountering a scene. The next step is usually to get out the Artist Viewfinder App on the iPhone so I can view with a given format and set of lenses (virtualized), then finally I set up the camera, compose and meter and either make the exposure or rethink things usually based on the light that may have changed. I recommend these View Catchers to everyone.

Hello Craig. Please do NOT stop making YT videos! Always insightful, always fun to watch.

I hope this is not the end of your KZfaq videos. You have made so many memorable ones. You really do inspire because the videos are about photography as an art honed by skill and not by the gear. Cheers and all the best - hope to see you again.

So enjoyed your vids over the years and will be very sorry to see them finish....so will have to re-watch then all now! Many thanks!!!

This channel is and has always been one of my favourites. Your dry yet witty sense of humour, especially in this day and age, has been a quiet blessing. Your mature photography has been an inspiration and I for one would be shattered if you left. But, it is your channel and you are free to do with it as you please and I would certainly be sad to see you go. If that is your decision, then I wish you all of the best!

Math nerd alert: You can divide the ratio to get a quotient to divide into the width of the viewing window. In the 16:9 ratio example, divide 16 by 9, then divide 5(cm) by the quotient of 1.7777. The result is 2.81. Craig, thank you for the years of great content.

Just bought one Craig, thank you for recommending it and instructions on setting it up.

I used the 35mm slide holder till I was able to see what you're commenting about. Hollywood use the two hands to form a format

Thanks for the series, exceptional quality and informative as always. Hope you don't disappear, those 'trendy' youtubers are only happy in their comfort zones and look really out of their depth in unfamiliar environments. You on the other hand have developed an armoury for many situations and locations. Thanks for sharing and all the best.

Sorry Craig, the idea of you stopping entirely is unacceptable and I insist that you reconsider, yours is the voice of calm sanity amidst the madness. Just once a month perhaps? You know you want to......

I hope you don't stop KZfaq. I would miss you

Your videos have been educational and funny. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge in so much great content.

I can not speak for everyone that watches your videos but I was glad to see you came back. Your new videos made us think about many things we may (or may not) take for granted. May good things come your way. (Also, I will subscribe to e6 when I return home.)

We realy miss watching you goinf on location and doing beautiful photos

Sorry if this is the end of your KZfaq journey. You deserve a larger following than you have. Thank you for all the videos you've done and your hard work.

Ooh, that's such a great tip! Love it! Thank you, I've just ordered one :)

You've been a refreshing change from all the lofi beat pov street photographers on youtube. Useful and insightful instruction!

Hope you stay on YT Craig, your no nonsense approach and sense of humour are so enjoyable

Big thank you Craig, have been a follower for a long time and appreciate your content as more educational and informative than other you tubers. This is something you should be proud of and separates you from the humdrum herd. I was thinking only last week about an e6 subscription, so I will be signing up this weekend

Enjoyed these, don't stop

Very helpful information, thank you!!

I've thoroughly enjoyed your latest series, it's been fresh and inspiring. It'll be a pity if you leave but a man's gotta do and all that.

I used finger frame, when I did not bring my camera. This is inspiring, I do not need to jealous of the expense xpan cam

Brilliant. Many thanks

I skip watching some subscriptions but never miss an e6. Enjoy your content very much.

I really liked this series and the snap shots you did before this one and I would certainly miss you on KZfaq. I know the e6 subscription offers a lot of information but at this moment I just haven’t the time for it. So seeing you here every now and then would be really appreciated.

Thanks Craig. It was a great series. Always a fresh inspiration.

Craig, definitely yours is the best, most informative & entertaining channel on photography. Great to have been following along. For us „normal people“ not shooting the great Tetons or Iceland all the time but on our doorstep your inspiration and advice is really spot on (and surely helps when being in those hot spots). Hope you find ways to continue 😉

Thanks for the content, It’s been good. No bullshit, no ’this is the best camera ever’...until a new version arrives next month, and no ’look at me, aren’t I the greatest thing since sliced bread‘ nonsense. From my point of view this has been one of the best Photography channels on YT, and I’ve viewed many. Best of luck in whatever you choose to do. You’ll be missed. Take care!

Excellent instructional uploads amidst a sea of gear review channels. Always very interesting subjects with a unique delivery style. It's nice to hear a UK voice for a change. Thanks for sharing and caring. Keep on keeping on… ✊🏿

That Viewcatcher definitely seems more convenient than carrying around a small stack of cut out index cards, they're always getting forgotten or mangled.

Hope it’s sooner rather than later! Love your content! Just grab your camera go film anything anywhere 😀

Looks like a very nice gadget. I think the photoshop method of calculating how far to open is more complicated than you need. You can just use a calculator - for 16:9, take the 5cm long measurement for the longest side, multiply by 9 and divide by 16. 5.0cm*9/16 gives you 2.8cm.

Wonderful. You’re an excellent teacher. And funny too!

Hope you don’t move away from YT completely. Will miss your humour and expertise.

Thank you Craig! Your videos have helped so much in my photography!

Your film camera videos really inspired me, thank you!

Thats a great gizmo, Ive just ordered one, I used to use a 35mm slide mount for this when using my old film camera.

Thank you for the lessons and see you again soon.

Craig, your channel is as unique as your style. I love the calm and considered approach - so counter-cultural. Please reconsider your intentions for the future of this channel Whatever your decision, a big thanks for all your work.

Thank you Craig for the inspirational videos to learn more of photography and more about ourselves. I hope you will join us here again soon. Greetings from Austria.

I'd be a bit loathe to change the aspect ratio setting on my camera because it means throwing pixels away. As far as I know this doesn't exist, but I wish a camera had a setting to where you could do that and the jpegs would be cropped to the ratio you want (or zoomed in) but you'd be able to recover the missing pixels and un-crop it from the raw file.

Actually one of my favorite formats is 6:17 (Nick Carver), if framed correctly it’s just great.

Why do I not get notifications for your videos??? I have the bell checked and still have to search for you. With that said, I think you are a clever photographer and can learn so much from you. You come up with the best compositions. Thanks

This is very interesting - thank you. Recently, I started self-teaching myself how to draw. That should also help practice composition.

Superb -as ever- discussion on format and framing for composition. What an eye opener each of your videos are.

Many thanks Craig your tips and advice has been invaluable in recent weeks, teaching beginners like myself and backing up your advice with incredible photography. I can’t thank you enough. I now have a very good reference base to refer to should I need it.

thank you for your time and effort.

Thanks for all the great teaching and images. Hoping you and David Thorpe can grace us with a video on occasion. Good luck from Bogota.

Bye Graig and thanks for everything - so useful and informative 😊👍😊

Craig its great to that you dipped back into you tube for a while, i love the music in your videos may i ask where you get it from

Great tip - thanks Craig

yes I have one of these to yours with the Hassie , it is very usefully, especially when working out focal lengths ... ps also have a fuji g617 :D ....

Cheese for this tip! I was thinking about cutting a bunch of card up into different shapes but the viewcatcher is a lot better. Just ordered one!

Miss you already!

I just got an idea for an even cheaper gadget 🙂 Some plain little cardboard (for 0.00 from your household). I hold that in front of my camera while looking through its viewfinder. Much better, because of less distraction from the outsides of the frame. Much larger, more comfortable viewing angle, rather than something more post stamp sized.

Thank you!

Thank you for remembering me that. Have a nice day.

Formats are available on the iphone

Best of luck in your new adventures.

Greg...I mean Craig, you are one of the most talented photographers on youtube and in general. Your videos are really down to earth and enjoyable as well as educational. I'm sorry to see you leave youtube. I've thought several times about joining the cool kids. I noticed you said in one of your recent videos that you were inclined to move away from landscape photography and towards photographing things you see in your daily walks, as well as architecture and abstracts, among other things. I like this approach because I can try to take those kind of pictures in my own neighborhood without having to travel like in landscape photography. Are you moving in that direction with your subscription service? For your subscription, how often do you create a new video, there's no dates on them, and how long are they, there's no length shown. More importantly, about what percentage, if any, of them show post-processing? One thing about your website, though. I understand about trying to prevent people from saving the images on your web pages simply by right clicking on them, but you are also preventing people from opening a link in a new tab by right clicking on it. It makes it somewhat hard to navigate your website. Thanks for all the videos you've made available on youtube up to now!

Don't know if the timing is right? If, then thanks a million for all those videos you uploaded here. I harvested what I could. Good luck with future adventures :)

thanks for the tip

Hi Craig, a search Amazon but I couldn't find those blocks. Maybe I don't know the correct word for that. Any link you can send if you have time. Thank you.

I will miss your content, genuinely. I hope you decided to publish videos on here, even if it is once a month. Perhaps some of the 6-8min quick walkaround shoots. I really enjoyed those. Either way you decide, thank you for your informative content, and take care.

I love your KZfaq videos.

Oh what a shame. I love your sense of humour. I’m ashamed to say that I have had one of those framing gizmos for several years but never used it. I’m off to find it and will carry it around with me all the time. Also going to try 16:9 format - it looks cool. P.S. I’ve signed up to your subscription service 😉

Craig, dont leave us! I discovered you for myself not so long ago and you are real, not like that cloned preset-salers with stupid obvious advises over the youtube( Maybe you can go back to the good old days and make some film shooting videos?)

Amazing

Think I'll get myself one of these little gizmos. Please don't go! Cheers. Ken

Oh my, another my favourite channel is closing down? Do you still sharing your work outside KZfaq? Nevertheless, we're really appreciate your lesson from the beginning. Your art is unique and rare amongst this community. Too many photography channels, too few to be considered as a real gem. Your humor is a fresh reminder for us to back into reality and not obsessing towards gear. You reminds us that we can, and could making a great photograph start from our backyard, not 1000km from home. Once again, thank you.

"Hello Craig, nice informative vid as usual, I am stuck in 4:3 mode always have been! so will try other sizes. I used to use my fingers as a frame but people would look at me weirdly, as if I was doing 'Tai Che', thanks for all your videos, sorry to see you go, all the best". Kev

See you next time! get your kit out get out and show us more Please! There is not many on here who can explain things like you, and its all good info.........Thank You......

Great idea, but I have tried every term I can think of and I do not find this device anywhere on Amazon................perhaps you have a helpful link?

On my camera 4:3 is the native format which gives max resolution horizontal and vertical. All other modes just crop the image. Wouldn't it be easiest to shoot everything in 4:3 and then choose whatever format in post processing? This is not to say that the gadget has no use as a training 'to see' tool.

Just to show the influence you have ... These devices on amazon UK went from £9.48 to £16.75 in two days and still sold out !!!

Nah nah nah!. Craig YT is not my choice for photography education, but it is like a highway. It has marked exits to tell you where to go. You have been like that quiet, sleepy main road right off of it that once you find, you'll keep coming back. Thank you!... I guess I'll subscribe to e6!...jeje see you there.

Hi Craig, been a long time follower of your vlogs and I have a question I'm hoping you have the time to answer. I love those photos you posted recently from around the village you live in , the early morning walks with a theme. Did you need the owners permission to post online photos of their property? I have seen some interesting door knockers around the small town I live in and would like to photograph several of them. Is there a rule or law.? Door furniture is private property but the door faces the street, which is in the public domain. Hope you can help with this poser.

More content needed, not less :)

Thanks for the e6 Vlogs KZfaq channel, it was great while it lasted. Oh, and thanks for not begging for Patreon money, PayPal money, Coffee money, etc., etc. I'll not subscribe to the e6 Subscription, though. Atb, Gordon

..i use since 35 years my old slide frames for this...and a have hundreds of them....no need to buy this gadget.... look for old slideframes....😁

BUT I need my Craig fix every now and then. Where will I go, I wonder if Craig David has a youtube channel?

The Fuji GFX cameras have an aspect ratio close to 3x1.

Where can we get this gadget?

Where are you?

3:21 = 1:7

First David Thorpe says goodbye and now you! Too much for one week. Say it ain’t so

Hi Craig, not interested in the medium as long as you continue to share with us your knowledge and photos and related process/comment when you take them. Let me say videos are more appreciated to feel better you sense of humour :). Thanks. S.

Let's see, you have 35k subscribers and you are quiting KZfaq? I guess you don't need the money.